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Frederick County Public Libraries & Frederick County Public Schools Suggested Reading for Grades 9 - 12
Multicultural:
- Absolutely True Diary of Part-Time Indian by Sheman Alexie
- Ten Things I Hate About Me by Randa Abdel-Fatath
- Born Confused by Tanuja Desai Hidier
- Sold by Patricia McCormick
- Finding Nouf by Zoe Ferraris
Biography:
- War Child by Emmanuel Jai
- Soloist by Steve Lopez
- This Child Will Be Great by Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf
- Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi (graphic novel)
Historical:
- Shackleton's Stowaway by Victoria McKernan
- News From the Dead by Mary Hooper
- Sunrise Over Fallujah by Walter Dean Myers
- Red Necklace: Story of the French Revolution by Sally Gardner
- Uprising by Margaret Peterson Haddix
- Laika by Nick Abadzis (graphic Novel)
Fantasy:
- Curse As Dark As Gold by Elizabeth Bunce
- Looking Glass War by Frank Beddor
- Graceling by Kristin Cashore
- Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
- Nation by Terry Pratchet
- Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan
Science Fiction:
- Generation Dead by Daniel Waters
- Genius Squad by Catherine Jinks
- Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
- Wake by Lisa McMann
- Adoration Of Jenna Fox by Mary Pearson
- Rash by Peter Hautman
Mystery:
- The Christopher Killer and sequel by Alane Ferguson
- Dead Connection by Charlie Price
- Sophomore Undercover by Ben Esch
- Paper Towns by John Green
Sports:
- No Limits : The Will to Succeed by Michael Phelps
- Quiet strength : a Memoir by Tony Dungy
- The 80-yard run : a twenty-week, coast-to-coast quest for the heart of high school football by Theron Hopkins
- Is This a Great Game, or What?: From A-Rod's Heart to Zim's Head My 25 Years in Baseball by Tim Kurkjian
- Boots on the ground by dusk : my tribute to Pat Tillman by Mary Tillman
- Cover Up by John Fienstien
- Football Hero by Tim Green
- Chalked Up by Jennifer Sey
- Blind Side by Michael Lewis
Realistic:
- Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart
- Winter Girls by Laurie Halse Anderson
- 13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher
- King Dork by Frank Portman
- Before I Die by Jenny Downham
- Skate by Michael Harmon
- Notes From a Midnight Drive by Jordan Sonnenblick
- All We Know Of Heaven by Jacqueline Mitchard
- Parrot Fish by Ellen Wittinger
Non-Fiction:
- Warrior Girls by Michael Y. Sokolove
- Among the Thugs (93)( not in FCPL collection)
- Beyond the Final Score (not in FCPL collection
- A Billion Lives by Jan England
- Generation Me by Jean M. Twenge
- No Choirboy: Murder, Violence, and Teenagers on Death Row by Susan Kuklin
Classic:
- Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
- Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
- Lord of the Rings by J.R.R.Tolkien
- And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
- Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
- One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest by Ken Kesey
- Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle
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